Rachel Nugent
Research TopicsGlobal Health Policy, Population and DevelopmentEducationPh.D. in Economics, George Washington University; BA in Economics and Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison. BackgroundRachel Nugent is deputy director, global health. She heads CGD’s Demographics and Development in the 21st Century Initiative, manages the Drug Resistance & Global Health Initiative, provides economic and policy expertise to the Global Health Policy Research Network Initiative and conducts research on other global health topics. She has 25 years of experience as a development economist, managing and carrying out research and policy analysis in the fields of health, agriculture and the environment. Prior to joining CGD, Nugent worked at the Population Reference Bureau, the Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. She also served as associate professor and chair of the economics department at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Nugent's publications include a range of topics, from the cost-effectiveness of non-communicable disease interventions and health impacts of fiscal policies to impacts of microcredit on the environment in developing countries and economic impacts of transboundary diseases and pests. Non-CGD Publications
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